Right from the get-go last Saturday morning, it’s been dubbed Israel’s 9/11. Yes there are parallels. But among them is the assiduous avoidance, in the largely pro-Zionist media, of asking what have the Israelis been doing to the Palestinians in Gaza that could have provoked such a knowingly self-sacrificial response? I suppose as long as we don’t ask we don’t have to tell. Because if we do tell it’s going to turn out that both sides, Jews and Arabs alike, have been practising terrorism for seventy-eight years. Ineluctably? Probably yes. Because given that sharing and genocide are both off the table, there’s no other way to co-exist. It’s just that, given these circumstances, and though understandable and predictable, crying foul remains more than a tad unseemly.
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Paulosophical Vimplications 
You must admit though – it has been cynically amusing seeing Gen Z (the generation who believes HRT is a human right and gender is a personal choice) celebrate Hamas as noble freedom fighters.
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It seems as though most (if not all) wars in recent memory are ones where both belligerents are at fault. I think socially and culturally, the whole “don’t ask, don’t tell” thing applies to this specific conflict because both parties are simultaneously at fault and not at fault, but at the same time, it leaves violence as the only answer since no other answer can be had. But perhaps violence is the only answer regardless, given the history of the middle east.
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